Russian doctors allow Alexei Navalny to be airlifted to Germany, say condition is 'stable'

Doctors treating Russian President Vlimir Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma after an alleged poisoning incident, have allowed him to be taken to Germany on Friday, August 21.

This came as a sudden U-turn after a little over 24 hrs, as doctors in Siberian city of Omsk h earlier raised concerns about Navalny’s critical condition and oppose his transfer. 44-year-old Putin critic was taken ill on a plane and was mitted to intensive care unit on Thursday and his supporters have alleged that he was poisoned on Kremlin’s orders. 

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Russian doctors face backlash

Navalny’s family and his supporters h vouched for politician and corruption investigator to be taken to a top German medical clinic. However, Russian doctors h said he was too unstable to move even after plane with German specialists along with vanced equipment arrived. This move drew more backlash from Navalny’s supporters who claimed that it was ar plot by authorities to let poison become untraceable in his. However, a senior doctor in Omsk has alrey said that team did t believe Putin’s critic was poisoned. 

44-year-old’s wife Yulia Navalny h even written to Russian President requesting her husband’s immediate transfer. Eventually, German doctors were ‘allowed’ to see Navalny and said y will be able to airlift patient out of local Siberian hospital to Berlin.

Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh is reported to have said that it is a matter of shame that Russian doctors took so long to approve his flight to Germany even though documents were signed on Friday morning. Putin’s critic will be taken to Germany on Saturday morning. 

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Doctors say Navalny’s condition is ‘stable’ 

Russia's Interfax news ncy quoted deputy chief doctor Anatoly Kalinichenko saying that Alexei Navalny’s condition is ‘stable’. Warning that flying is t recommended, he also ted that patient’s family has been persuing to continue treatment in Germany, and refore, y have taken decision to t object transfer. 

Doctors have suggested ‘metabolic disorder’ due to low blood sugar causing Navalny to fall into a coma. n, health officials also indicated that re were certain traces of an industrial chemical that were found in skin and hair of 44-year-old.

Alexei Navalny is kwn to have consistently exposed official corruption in Russia and has also served jail time in several instances. Despite narrative put forth by doctors, his supporters have claimed that a poisous substance was put in his tea at an airport cafe in city of Tomsk while he was on his way to Moscow. 

(With AP Inputs)

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